Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-12
The Funeral OF the Several Victims
to Occur Monday.
OBrien Arrested While Seeing Labouchere
off on the Boat.
The Press Generally Speak in Un-
favorable Terms of the Con-
duct of the Police.

Inc tribune prints nearly two columns of
special dispatch from Mitchellstown, signed
by T. P. Gill, member of Parliament who
was an eye witness of the disturbances at
that place, yesterday, between police and
civilians. He says:
just outside of Mitchellstown we were met
by tremendous concourse of people who
marched in contingents, marshalled by
! priests and local leaders on horseback
Large bodies of farmers were mounted and
formed at the head of the cortege quite
cavalry. In this fashion we entered the
town and went in procession through it's
principal streets, winding up in the market
square, where the meeting was to be held.
The people cheered Enthusiastically the
English members and were in the greatest
good humor and delight when speaking was
about to begin. Members of Parliament,
some clergymen aud other prominent men
occupied the vehicle which constituted the
platform. l stood on high seat of this
bre ak, and five thousand people were spread
before my eyes in "a compact mass, the
mounted farmers forming fringe around
the outer edge. Down at the lower end of
the square about fifty yards from the horses,
stood body of police.
| We have heard with some uneasiness of
large drafts of police having been brought
yesterday into the town, and it was stated
they had been refused lodgings and had spent
the night drinking in an untenanted house.
l therefore thought it good omen to see the
| force withdrawn so far from the meeting
| Dean Mccarthy had just begun his opening
remarks when the police advanced at quick
pace upon the meeting and pressed their way
roughly in. They had government reporter
in their midst.
| This movement caused great excitement
among the people. Things looked threaten
| ing when Dillon began 10 speak. His well
known figure restored the distracted attention
OF the people and after he had been speaking
few moments all was quiet again and the
meeting seemed fairly under way.
1t was Just then that the police made new
movement They crushed their way still
further into the dense crowd and
began hammering the horses
with their batons. The horses plunged and
kicked. A man was struck with baton,
and he struck back with his stick. Some
body threw stone. In a second the police
formed and charged. There was moment
of panic in the crowd, when it swung back
on the Wagonette, but only moment. Like
flash those nearest the police rallied, and
| infuriated at this attack fell upon them with
their blackthorns.
There were few minutes of brisk fighting
when the police turned and fled in the wild
est confusion rolling over each other in their
endeavor to escape. Several of their helmets
tumbled off, which the people seized and tore
to shreds or kicked before them like foot
balls. They disappeared around the corner
in a shower of stones.
Soon afterwards we heard volley of mus
kerry from the street up which the police had
fed and in which their barracks were situa-
ted Then another, then another.
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street toward the barracks. The police were
firing out of the windows in the second story
One man fell dead at the foot of the square.
Another with bullet through the roof of his
skull lay in his blood against the wall Mr..
Vaudeville, solicitor, who was to defend
O'Brien, had the flesh torn from his temples.
Many others were wounded
Dillon rushed into the barracks. There
he fonnd the commander of the police raging
like a maniac, and calling on men to come
out and fire volleys up and down the street,
an order which Dillon, by holding the Off
Ger in the hall by main force prevented him
from executing. Firing from the windows
continued few minutes longer. A body of
the police rushed from the barracks and
charged up the square, but in a second more
the charge was turned iuto flight.
The people who had massed in a corner.
wheeled around behind them and sent them
rushing pell nell with a well directed voley
of stones. The police made for the priests
house and succeeded in escaping into the
hall and banging the door to. Just then
met Dillon coming up the Square, bsreheaded
and returning to the barracks. At HE sug-
gestion, Mr. Loubourchere, Mr.. Brunner and
I went to the police barracks to interview
the magistrate IN command.
Dillon had been unable to prevail upon
him to withdraw the excited constabulary,
who were by this time drawn up in double
line across the street where they had been fir
ing, and he thought perhaps that the remon-
STRANGE OF an English member would have
more effect upon him. We found the resi-
dent magistrate, a young man, white with
excitement. The sleeve of his coat was
meared with blood and he held in his hands
stout stick which he shook while he spoke.
| The corpse of one Of the murdered men
had been dragged off the roadway and lay
| right across the threshold OF the barracks
| door in pool of blood.
| The interview ended by the magistrate say
ing curtly, "Thst he had sent for the Mill
tary." Redcosts were soon afterward seen
coming across the square, at the lower end
of which they drew up in single line. In an
hour or so, by great exertion on the part of
all of us we got the town fairly clear of
blood. AS 1 returned to the square l found
a tall young fellow, dipping his handkerchief
in the blood OF the man who was first shot.
| He said, 81 am going to keep this forever as
as pledge of mortal hate against English
rule This, briefly, is the story of the
day.
LONDON, Sept. 10.
The police at Mitchellstown, assert that the
trouble there, yesterday, was due to the Nat
ioaalist leaders shouting for the mob to hold
| tog ther.
The nationalists are exultant over the good
fight they made yesterday. The police pa
raded this morning. A majority of them
wore bandages over wounds they received
yesterday. The fourteen policemen, who